| Accident Date | Name | Nationality | Occupation | Age | Married Single | # Widows | #Orphans | Name of Colliery | County | Nature & Cause of Accident in Brief |
| Jan-04 | Richard Duggan | American | Miner | 38 | M | 1 | 3 | Powderly | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by fall of roof near face of chamber while trying to take it down. |
| Jan-18 | Joseph Teller | German | Laborer | 61 | S | 0 | 0 | Riverside | Lackawanna | Suffocated by inhaling sulphur fumes on the bank while he was lying down, apparently resting. Outside. |
| Jan-21 | Alex Glinskie | Polish | Laborer | 36 | M | 1 | Raymond | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by fall of roof while ??? in another ??? | |
| Feb-06 | Frank Kearsey | American | Slate-picker | 16 | S | 0 | 0 | Tappans | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by being caught by revolving ???? ?????about 7:15 in the morning before ??? commencing work. Outside. |
| Mar-08 | Silas Moon | English | Laborer | 40 | M | 1 | 5 | West Mountain | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by fall of roof near of heading while shoveling coal into car. The piece was"saddle" shaped. |
| Apr-13 | Edward Linnen | American | Laborer | 23 | S | 0 | 0 | Coal Brook | Lackawanna | Instantly killed by fall of roof while shoveling coal back from a pillar that was being robbed. |
| Apr-13 | Joseph Kauzany | Polish | Laborer | 21 | S | 0 | 0 | Coal Brook | Lackawanna | Killed by fall of roof while shoveling coal back from a pillar that was being robbed. |
| Apr-26 | Michael Bogusky | Russian | Laborer | 21 | S | 0 | 0 | North-West | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by fall of roof at face of rock ?????? while ????? a car with ????? |
| May-03 | Bartley Coggins | Irish | Miner | 48 | S | 0 | 0 | White Oak | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by fall of roof at face of chamber before commencing his days work. He should have taken the ???? down the day previous. |
| May-04 | Daniel Conda | Italian | Slate-picker | 50 | M | 1 | 2 | Erie | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by breaking machinery while sweeping the breaker in some unknown manner his clothing was caught by a set screw. Outside. |
| Jul-12 | Edward Kane | American | Brake-man | 17 | S | 0 | 0 | Coal Brook | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by being squeezed between mine cars while coupling them together. Outside. |
| Jul-25 | John McDonnell | American | Laborer | 46 | S | 0 | 0 | White Oak | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by fall of roof at face of pillar that was being "robbed" while he was barring down some loose coal from the end of pillar. |
| Jul-29 | Stanley Klonskie | Russian | Driver | 38 | S | 0 | 0 | Powderly | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by being run over by a mine car. The car tipped over on him while running it from a chamber. Died August 11. |
| Aug-07 | Lawrenc Musial | Polish | Miner | 44 | M | 1 | 5 | Erie | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by fall of roof back from the face of the chamber while running away from a shor he was firing. The rock that fell was in the shape of a a roll and hard to detect. |
| Aug-24 | James Gall | German | Driver | 20 | S | 0 | 0 | Northwest | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by being thrown under mine car. He was riding on the bumper of a loaded rock car with one foot sliding along the rail, when his foot was caught against joint and he was thrown under the car. Outside. |
| Sep-02 | Paul Kanash | Austrian | Miner | 39 | M | 1 | 3 | Powderly | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by flying coals from a blast fired by another miner in a crosscut near the face of heading while he was near the face of airway. |
| 11-Sep | Philip Colabro | Italian | Laborer | 24 | S | 0 | 0 | Coal Brook | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by fall of roof near pillar while he and his miner were laying a piece of track preparatory to taking out the pillar. |
| 6-Oct | John Keichart | Polish | Miner | 49 | M | 1 | 5 | Erie | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by dynamite powder while preparing a cartridge for a blast the powder exploded in some unknown manner. |
| 12-Oct | Michael Irving | American | Miner | 44 | M | 1 | 3 | Jermyn | Lackawanna | Instantly killed at face of heading by fall of roof. After firing a blast he was barring down loose pieces when a large piece fell. |
| 18-Nov | Wm McDonough | American | Runner | 31 | S | 0 | 0 | Jermyn | Lackawanna | Compound fracture of leg below the knee by being caught between motor and car. He was sitting on the front end of motor when pushing a car car in on a chamber track, when the car jumped off the head end and raised the other end and caught him against the motor. Died in the hospital December 6, after an operation. |
| 23-Nov | Patrick Horan | American | Miner | 65 | M | 1 | 0 | Powderly | Lackawanna | Fatally injured by being thrown under mine car in his chamber. He was standing in front of the car, which was being loaded by two laborers, when the gob in front of the car rushed against the car and forced it down the track and Horan was knocked under the car. |
| 25-Nov | Anthony Cristo | Italian | Driver | 23 | M | 1 | 2 | Coal Brook | Lackawanna | Skull fractured in an unknown manner while working as a driver. The verdict of the coroner’s jury at the inquest held Dec 6 is as follows: "We, the undersigned, after hearing the testimony of the witnesses came to the conclusion that Anthony Cristo died at Emergency Hospital, December 3, as the result of injuries sustained in the Coal Brook Colliery, Nov 25, 1911." |
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